Word: businger
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Less than a year ago, Linda Chavez, 38, was the relatively unknown staff director of the U.S. Civil Rights Commission, a bipartisan federal advisory panel. But Chavez, a Hispanic American and onetime union lobbyist, transformed the minor post into a bully pulpit to express her strongly conservative views against racial...
More than three-fourths of the 105 black leaders polled favored affirmative- action preferences in hiring and college admissions; by the same percentage, the survey's 600 black citizens rejected the notion that race should be the main criterion. Leaders heavily favored abortion, busing to achieve school integration and a...
The women interest the author most: Alice McGoff, with a fierce sense of pride and devotion; Rachel Twymon, afflicted with lupus, passionately determined to work her way up from welfare; Joan Diver, devoted to self-denial and sacrifice. Each has reason to believe that her children are being victimized by...
Manifestly, Lukas means these stories to be paradigms. Are they the only possible paradigms, the inevitable, universal results of busing? The author's careful choice of characters seems to imply that they are. The book ends in the late '70s, and thus omits both the continuing signs of racism and...
Common Ground explores the sad, violent history of busing in Boston. The broken promises of Armistice Day, 1918, are recalled.